I've installed Debian on my powerpc machine, but I can't log in via a virtual terminal.
I switch to the vterm using alt+f2 then enter my username and password at the prompts. It displays the message of the day, then hangs. If I switch to another vterm, I can do the same; logging in, displaying the motd then hanging.
Any ideas??
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Virtual Terminal on PowerPC
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Since nobody volunteers, I'll try to give it a shot .benjim wrote:I switch to the vterm using alt+f2 then enter my username and password at the prompts. It displays the message of the day, then hangs. If I switch to another vterm, I can do the same; logging in, displaying the motd then hanging.
Any ideas??
If you can login on the console (right?) and not on the virtual terminal, that's very strange... Anyway, what you can do is try to login there (causing this hang) and then examine the state of the running processes through console. During the normal login process you type your username at the getty prompt, after that it calls login to ask for you password, and finally, the shell (typically bash) is started, if password is ok. I would guess that it hangs trying to start a shell. You can check whether the new shell has been started using ps aux | grep bash. If it is started (you see it in ps output), but it does not give you the prompt, you can try attaching a strace to it by running strace -p <shell process id>. That would hopefully show you the system call on which it blocks, if that's the case. Also, make sure that there is nothing funky in your shell startup files (both global and per-user).